Mount Labo

Mount Labo
Mount Labo Location of Mount Labo in the Philippines
Elevation	1,544 m (5,066 ft)
Location
Location	Philippines
Coordinates	14°1′0″N 122°47′30″E / 14.016667°N 122.79167°E / 14.016667; 122.79167Coordinates: 14°1′0″N 122°47′30″E / 14.016667°N 122.79167°E / 14.016667; 122.79167

Mount Labo, is a potentially active stratovolcano in the province of Camarines Norte, in Region V, on Luzon Island, in the Philippines.

It is located at the northwest end of the Bicol Peninsular at latitude 14.02°N (14°1'0"N), longitude 122.792°E (122°47'30"E).

Physical features

Labo is a forested 1544 metre high andesitic stratovolcano, surrounded by numerous andesitic to dacitic satellite lava domes.

Labo has an elevation of 1544 metres asl.

Base diameter of this compound volcano is 35 kilometres.

Labo is thermally activity with both warm and hot springs.

Economic activities

Mount Labo has been the object of an extensive geothermal exploration program.^{[citation needed]}

Eruptions

Mid-Pleistocene eruptions beginning about 580,000 years ago formed lava domes on the northern side of the complex.

The present edifice was formed beginning about 270,000 years ago, and flank lava dome emplacement took place from about 200,000 to about 40,000 years ago.

The latest activity from Mt Labo produced pyroclastic flows from the summit cone about 27,000 years ago.

There have been no eruptions since.

Geology

Rock type is predominantly hornblende-biotite andesite to dacite.

Tectonically, Labo it is part of the Bicol Volcanic belt.

Listings

The Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program lists Labo as Pleistocene - Hot Springs.

Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) lists Labo as Potentially Active.

External links

• Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS), Labo page
• "Labo". Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution. http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0703043A. 

See also

• Active volcanos in the Philippines
• Potentially active volcanos in the Philippines
• Inactive volcanos in the Philippines
• Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology
• Volcano
• Pacific ring of fire

References